Summary: State Party Saint Kitts and Nevis acceded to the convention on 13 September 2013 and enacted national implementing legislation for the convention in August 2014. It last attended a meeting of the convention in 2013. Saint Kitts and Nevis provided an initial transparency report for the convention in December 2015, confirming it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Saint Kitts and Nevis acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 13 September 2013 and became a State Party on 1 March 2014.

During 2016, Saint Kitts and Nevis submitted its initial Article 7 transparency measures report for the convention, covering the period of calendar year 2015. According to the report, it enacted domestic implementing legislation entitled the Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Act on 27 August 2014.[1]

Saint Kitts and Nevis attended one meeting of the Oslo Process that created the convention (Vienna in December 2007) and one regional meeting (Mexico City in April 2008). Saint Kitts and Nevis deposited its instrument of accession on the final day of the convention’s Fourth Meeting of States Parties in September 2013 after government officials, including the foreign minister, expressed interest in accession.[2]

Saint Kitts and Nevis has participated in two of the convention’s Meetings of States Parties (in 2012 and 2013) as well as the First Review Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in September 2015. Saint Kitts and Nevis did not attend the convention’s intersessional meetings in 2011–2015 or the Sixth Meeting of States Parties. It participated in a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile, in December 2013.

Saint Kitts and Nevis voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution in December 2016 promoting implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which urges states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.”[3] It also supported a UNGA resolution pertaining to the human rights situation in Syria, which condemned the use of cluster munitions in 2016.[4]

Saint Kitts and Nevis is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

According to its initial Article 7 transparency report, Saint Kitts and Nevis does not possess any cluster munition stocks and has never produced, used, or transferred the weapons.[5]